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Recently Completed Theses

2023-24

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Daly, Alastair

A New Epic Humour: The Influence of Comic Literature on Apollonius' Argonautica

PhD

Martine Cuypers

Doyle, Lisa

Margins of Learning: A Critical Analysis of the Scholia on Apollonius’ Argonautica

PhD

Martine Cuypers

La Penna, Kathryn

Animals in Roman Spectacles: A Study of the Interplay Between Spectacle Design and Animal Behaviour

PhD

Hazel Dodge

Neil, Eleanor

The Many Voices of Community Archaeology: Inclusion and Multivocality in Cyprus

PhD

Christine Morris

Prekas, George

Sic Mundus Creatus Est: Connection, Convergence, Coherence in Manilius’ Astronomica

PhD

Monica Gale

2022-23

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Foley, Elizabeth

Nesiotai and Poleis Aspects of Agency in the Hellenistic Cyclades

PhD

Shane Wallace

Hill, Andrew

The Libyan Wars. Crisis, Climate, and Conflict in Carthaginian North Africa

PhD

Shane Wallace

McGrath, Sean

Oppian’s Piscine Dialectic

PhD

Martine Cuypers

Strigel, William

The Weight of Aristophanes: Plato and the ‘Other’ Comic Poets

PhD

Ashley Clements

2021-22

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Ashton, Susannah

Cosmos and Crisis: Re-evaluating Conceptions of Time and Space in Archaic and Classical Greece

PhD

Ashley Clements

Gwozdecky, Graham

Hero and Exile: Plutarch’s Life of Sertorius

PhD

Brian McGing

Moore, Ralph

‘Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman Impact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10 BCE

PhD

Hazel Dodge

Ward, Matthew

Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of The Iliad

PhD

Ahuvia Kahane

2020-21

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Madela, Alexandra

The Argonautica of Orpheus and the Epic Tradition in Late Antiquity

PhD

Martine Cuypers

Walker, Guy

Neoplatonic Thought in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca

PhD

Martine Cuypers

2019-20

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Corless, Bridget

Colour Symbolism and the use of Decorative Stones in Rome

MLitt

Hazel Dodge

2018-19

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Almqvist, Olaf

The Cosmos in the Making: Humans, Gods and Animals in Early Greek Theogonies

PhD

Ashley Clements

Desmond, Margaret

Fires in Rome: The Ancient City as a Fire Régime

PhD

Hazel Dodge

Zimmermann, Simone

Midwives of Eileithyia: Tracing a Female Healing Tradition in Prehistoric Crete

PhD

Christine Morris

2017-18

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Felisari, Clara

Capturing Iambos: Code-Switching in an Ancient Greek Literary Language

PhD

Martine Cuypers

Gramps, Adrian

The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry

PhD

Martine Cuypers / Monica Gale

Kerrigan, Charlie

Geography and Empire in Virgil’s Georgics: A Study of the Poem and its Reception in Britain and the British Empire, c. 1820-1930

PhD

Monica Gale

2016-17

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Akcay, Nilufer

Porphyry’s Cave of the Nymphs in Its Intellectual Context

PhD

Martine Cuypers

Alexandrou, Constantina

Following the Life-Cycle of Base-Ring Female Figurines in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

PhD

Christine Morris

Breeckner, David

The Design and Use of Provincial Ceramics in Middle Minoan East Crete, as Observed at Priniatikos Pyrgos

PhD

Christine Morris

Flanders, Bethany

Medeae Medea forem: Rediscovering Ovid’s Medea

PhD

Monica Gale

O'Halloran, Barry

The Political Economy of Classical Athens: A Maritime Perspective

PhD

Brian McGing

Sanborn, Katherine

Ille regit animos dictis: Models of Authority in Vergil's Aeneid

PhD

Monica Gale

2015-16

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Faropoulou, Kalypso

The Social Meaning of Early Bronze Age Architecture in the Eastern Aegean and Western Anatolia

MLitt

Christine Morris

Lynam, Frank

Linking Archaeology: Considering the Epistemological and Sociological Implications of a Linked Open Data Archaeology

PhD

Christine Morris

Zinn, Pamela

‘Sic hominum genus est’: Animals and the Continuum of Life in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius

PhD

Monica Gale

2014-15

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Bourke, Elizabeth

The Cult of Asklepios in Greece 420 BC-200 CE: Healing, Landscape and Experience

Ph.D.

Christine Morris

2013-14

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Cadau, Cosetta

Studies in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen

Ph.D.

Martine Cuypers

2012-13

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Kevin McGee

Petrarch's Aeneid: Critical Assessments of Virgil in the Africa

Ph.D.

ACh

Mairéad McGrath

Pregnant Words: A Study of Eumenides 657-666

Ph.D.

MC

Selga Medenieks

Cyrus the Great, Religion, and the Conquest of Ancient Anatolia

Ph.D.

BMcG

Emmett Tracy

Versiculi Simplices? The Issue of Simplicity & the Hymni Ambrosian

Ph.D.

ACh

Conor Trainor

The Ceramics Industry of Ancient Sikyon

Ph.D.

CM

Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska

Goddesses with Upraised Arms in Crete and Cyprus. A Comparative Study

Ph.D.

CM

2011-12

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Jessica Evans

The discourse of political freedom in ancient Greek historiography

Ph.D.

BMcG

2010-11

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Diskin, Matthew The Ghost of Brennus. Gaulish Themes in Classical Literature and Roman Policy in the West Ph.D BMcG
Recht, Laerke Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: a Postructuralist Approach Ph.D CM

2009-10

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Helen Connolly Greek, Roman and Jewish Sacrificial Temple Practices in Asia Minor, The Levant and Egypt MLitt BMcG
James Grant Couper Self-interest, self-help and the Roman state: policing the north-western provinces of the Empire. PhD HD
Laura Jansen Textual Desire in Ovid's Amores PhD MG
Suzanne O'Neill The Architectural and Cultural Reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its Frieze PhD CM
Selena Martin The Foreign Origins of The Kadmeans and Tantalids MLitt MC

2008-09

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Deirdre Craig Water Imagery in Propertius PhD MG
Barry Dixon A Theory of the Aesthetics of Platonic Dialectic through Gadamerian Hermeneutics PhD JD
Aoife Fitzgerald Urbanisation in the Ancient Near East MLitt HD
Siobhan Hargis The Development of the Campus Martius, Rome PhD HD
Diego Honorato 'Myth' and 'Reason': a dichotomy revisited from the perspective of the philosopher Xavier Zubiri PhD JD
Geoffrey McEvoy Reactions to the Great Library of Alexandria MLitt BMcG

2007-08

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Angharad Dowling Hellenistic Death and Burial in the Near East. MLitt HD
Donncha O'Rourke "Letum non omnia finit": Reading Virgilian Allusion in Propertius 4' PhD MG
Giorgios Papantoniou Cyprus, from Basileis to Strategos: Social Power and the Archaeology of Religion PhD CM
Emma Saunders Pictures from the Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean PhD CM
Nina Shiel "The Venus Syndrome": Inanna, Hathor and the "Queen of Heaven" stereotype in Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies MLitt CM

2006-07

Name Title Degree Supervisor
John Burke The Number Three in Greek Religion MLitt JD
Jo Day An Exploration of the social roles of plants in the Bronze Age Aegean PhD CM
Anthony Forde Lindow Man: Murder or Suicide? MLitt HD
Eleni Kaklamanou Attitudes to Rhetoric in the Old and New Academy PhD JD
Carl O'Brien Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators: Studies in the Development of the Demiurge in the Platonic, Gnostic Hermetic and Christian Traditions. PhD JD
Deirdre Stritch Archaeology and the State - An Uneasy Alliance? PhD CM

2005-06

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Ioanna Papaioannou Family-Woman and Herodotean Narrative MLitt BMcG
Takashi Shoji The Religious Policy of Diocletian and the Tetrarchs MLitt BMcG
Emily Lefebvre The Jobs and Epitaphs of the Imperial Household Slaves and Freedmen MLitt BMcG
Catherine Ware The Politics of Claudian. Panegyric in the Ancient Epic Tradition PhD DN